Satire of dictatorial leaders in Legson Kayira's the detainee
Published by : University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, department of english language and literature (Bujumbura) Physical details: IV-73 f. 30 cm. Year: 2014
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Bibliothèque Centrale | 820. BIZ. (Browse shelf) | 1 | Not For Loan | 5010000421700 |
This work examines Legson Kayira's use of satire in The Detainee. To get to this, our study explores the dictatorial attitudes of the leaders in place towards the people they are called to lead. We therefore expose the remarkable abyss between the ruling party members and the ruled. This is done by exposing the sociopolitical and economic difficulties that characterize the daily realities of the masses.Caught in the web of opposing voices, these leaders oppress and terrorise the very masses who voted then into office. This work therefore shows the doleful experience of post independent Malawians who are caught in the dictastorial leaders who continuously try to hold power by book and by crook. They create new strings to keep the ordinary people in a permanent moral decay. Written against the back ground of post-colonial theory, this work settles on the hypothesis that, Kayira uses satire in his novel, The Detainee to criticise the lust for power and the dictatorial system of post-colonial Malawian leaders.
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